{The Ultimate ANDY DALTON Mega Thread}

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(12-30-2017, 02:46 PM)CornerBlitz Wrote: struggle with? Keep thread on topic.

1. Gets confused very easily when defense mixes up coverages
2. Throws the ball out of bounds way too often on deep throws.
3. Does not stay patient in the pocket
4. Has trouble after his first read is covered
5. Has had some of his worst games of his career when we need him most. 0-5 playoffs, terrible against the steelers.
6. Most consider him to be a liability or average at best in terms of arm strength.

Definitely not attributes you want to see from your starting QB.

1. Dalton is actually pretty good pre-snap reading and adjusting plays. The OC just needs to give him the leeway to do so.
2. Agreed, but he's actually overall still a decent deep ball thrower. People rage if he doesn't hit 100% of them, but the fact is it's not a 100% throw. If it were that easy to hit a guy in stride 40 yards down the field, that's all anyone would ever do. Derek Carr goes like 2-6 on deep throws in a game or Newton goes 0-2 and nobody says a word.
3. He does when he has a decent OL. Go back and rewatch 2015 tape.
4. Every WR not named AJ Green has been mediocre at best, and garbage at worst since Marvin Jones left, and even AJ vanishes versus press coverage at times. They also seem to be coached to just stop and stand in place if the QB is scrambling. Other teams move and try to get open, the Bengals don't seem to practice that at all.
5. That's a Marvin Lewis thing. Not to mention Andy Dalton has only played in FOUR playoff games. So how he became 0-5 is a mystery to me. Kitna: 0-1, Palmer 0-1, Dalton 0-4, McCarron 0-1. When EVERY QB looks the same in primetime/playoff games under Marvin, it's Marvin.
6. This was true about 4 years ago. The only people who still consider that true are people who stopped paying attention.

Dalton isn't ever going to be an elite QB, and he has his issues, but this is a pretty crap list.